[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) a tapot� : > Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > > Someone at United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations > > made a md5sum-like program, with the following additional features: > > Thanks for posting information about that program. > > > Recursive operation - md5deep is able to recursive examine an > > entire directory tree. That is, compute the MD5 for every file > > in a directory andf for every file in every subdirectory. > > It is better to use find. This one program works with all of the > utilities. > > find . -print0 | xargs -r0 md5sum
Right. But -r is easier. [ About find (off-topic, ok), I submitted a bug report a few months ago without getting any answer. The -newer option does not work as expected with computers > 700 Bogomips ; at least on 3 different ones ] > > Time estimation - md5deep can produce a time estimate when > > it's processing very large files. > > > > > > Comparison mode - md5deep can accept a list of known > > hashes and compare them to a set of input files. The > > program will only display those input files that match the > > list of known hashes. > > Similar to the md5sum -c option? Is this what "check message digests (default is generate)" means? With the French translation, it was not obvious to me ; but indeed, I'm not familiar with md5sum. -- Mathieu Roy << Profile << http://savannah.gnu.org/users/yeupou << >> Homepage >> http://yeupou.coleumes.org >> << GPG Key << http://stock.coleumes.org/gpg << _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
